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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Christmas-Turkey or does it

Christmas
is full of old traditions, like eating turkey on Christmas day,
sending out Christmas cards, hanging tinselaround
the house, but why do we do it and how did it originate? Here’s the
facts.

Turkeys
were first bought into Britain in 1526, before this time, for
Christmas meals people used to eat geese, boars’ head and even
peacocks.

Turkeys
were eaten instead of cows and chickens because the farmers needed
their cows more for their milk, and needed their chickens for the
eggs, which back then were more expensive than they are today. So
instead of killing off one of their livestock for Christmas, they’d
have a turkey as it was something different and they could save their
livestock to produce more milk and eggs..

Henry
VIII was the first person to eat a turkey on Christmas Day, however
it wasn’t until the 1950’s that the turkey was a more popular
Christmas meal choice than the goose.

The
good thing about Christmas Day and turkeys is that Christmas is a
family time, and turkeys are family size!

87%
of British people believe that Christmas would not be the same
without a traditional roast turkey.

Today
in the UK, we eat around 10 million turkeys every year for Christmas
time.

25%
of British people buy their turkeys months in advance.

A
survey shows that the top three most popular ways to serve leftover
Christmas turkey are: sandwiches, soups/stews or salads.

Dearest Jo-Anne,Turkey is not on the Christmas menu here in the USA, only for Thanksgiving. Neither in The Netherlands. It can be a wide range of favorite foods but not turkey.Merry Christmas to you and yours! Mariette